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01 Feb 12 | Yerong Creek residents Ross Edwards and Tony Yates share this accolade for 2012.
01 Feb 12 | Just minutes before the nominees for Greater Hume Shire’s Citizen of the Year were announced, Elmore Stoll, who has been a resident of the Walla Walla area for his whole life, told the Eastern Riverina Chronicle that he had “no chance of being awarded Citizen of the Year”.
Lockhart Shire residents celebrate Australia Day
01 Feb 12 | Hot, dry conditions didn’t deter almost 200 residents from turning up to Lockhart Shire’s Australia Day Celebration 2012 at The Rock Recreation Ground.
Australia Day - a beaut
01 Feb 12 | Australia Day was celebrated across the Eastern Riverina last week with official ceremonies being held in The Rock, Woomargama and Morundah.
25 Jan 12 | Enter your baby in the Eastern Riverina Chronicle’s “Readers Choice Baby Competition”.
25 Jan 12 | An invaluable member of the Henty community was recognised at the official opening of the Henty Park Tennis Club last Friday afternoon.
25 Jan 12 | A new type of trap is being investigated in the Murray Catchment to capture the feral pest fish, Common Carp, which has exploded in numbers since the floods in 2010-11.
Native birds given a new lease of life
25 Jan 12 | Edwina Haynes, who is an authorised Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service (WIRES) rehabilitator, is currently looking after three Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes whose habitat was lost due to the roadwork at the south end of the Holbrook bypass.
WOMEN GO THE DISTANCE IN LOCKHART
25 Jan 12 | The impending thunderstorm and light show didn’t seem to deter the crowds on Saturday night at Lockhart’s “biggest pool party”.
18 Jan 12 | Recently there have been calls from some motorists for the speed limit of the Hume Highway to be increased from 110 to 130 kilometres per hour; especially once the Holbrook bypass is completed.
Greater demand for community transport
18 Jan 12 | Liz McInnis from Kalianna community transport services welcomes the suggestion of improving the requirements for community drivers however she says that it could cause its own problems.
18 Jan 12 | Those who finished their HSC last year who are looking to study agriculture at university are being encouraged to apply for “The Horizon Scholarship”.
18 Jan 12 | Henty Public School will be continuing its involvement with the Fiveways Reserve Habitat Restoration Project in 2012 thanks to a grant of $20,000 from the Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority (CMA).
Benefits of Holbrook's Bypass
18 Jan 12 | The Holbrook community is determined not to let the bypass change the spirit of the town or take away from its attraction as one of the best stop overs on the Hume Highway.
21 Dec 11 | Over 30 people attended the noise wall consultation in the Holbrook Community Technology Centre (CTC) last week.
Female doctor - at long last
21 Dec 11 | After campaigning for more than 15 years for another doctor to come to his practice, Dr Lakshmanan has welcomed Dr Jane Russell from the Royal Flying Doctors Service who will be running a two day clinic in Holbrook every eight weeks.
21 Dec 11 | An issue regarding classification of roads within the Lockhart Shire was raised at the monthly council meeting on Thursday subsequent to a letter of complaint by two Yerong Creek residents.
Learning in the reel world
21 Dec 11 | Mr Darren Watt, a teacher at Lockhart Central School came second in the National Championships in the canoe/kayak section of the Yamaha Cod Classic at Lake Mulwala recently.
21 Dec 11 | Thanks to all those who have made 2011 a special year
Curlewing the landscape
14 Dec 11 | Jindera farmers, Jan and Neville Lubke, showcased their captive breeding and release program for the Bush-Stone Curlew in the exhibition “The Sauntering Emu and other stories: Our life with the birds of the Riverina” at the Wagga Wagga Botanical Gardens on the weekend.
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